Saturday, 10 June 2017

So I got to Kiev, i got past the pickpockets and checked in to the hostel, there was a pool around the corner, I was on a roll, so I went.

The girl at the desk asked me for the Doctors cert, and I told her I didn't have one, too bad I couldn't go.
Turns out I cant go swimming anywhere else either. I thought the pools were only for people in rehab, people recovering from car crashes and the like

What I was beginning to think swimming here was like

So, I was talking to a local the other night, hes a swimmer, I told him you don't look too bad?

As it turns out the doctors cert is a throw back from the Russians, you need a cert from the doctor to prove you don't have any contagious diseases.

Oh how I laughed, they might have got rid of the Russians, but the Russian way of doing business is still here.

Friday, 9 June 2017

Last Saturday myself Yoshi,Tatiania and some married dude in Kiev for the night went out, we settled on a Hookah bar.

A hookah bar

Are you with me so far? In between the clouds of smoke Tatiania says to me

"Some people are crazy, I'm glad I'm single"

Eager to know more, I ask what she is on about, as it turns out, she speaks the local lingo, actually she is from Ukraine and she has just overheard the Ukraine guys conversation with is wife/girlfriend.

She rang him, when she found out he was out with some people, she gave him an earful and insisted on him going home, so he made his excuses and departed.

So we go home, I was staying on a different level on the building, I said goodbye to Tatiania and Mr Yoshi.
Next day, I heard that the Ukraine guy and Yoshi stayed up talking, nothing illegal there.
And later, Yoshi told me his version of what happened.
Its funny how people that are abused/persecuted turn around and persecuted others, well....

The Ukraine guy started on Yoshi and told him that he cannot be single, at one point in the story Yoshi told me "Fuc%ing is important too"

He lectured Yoshi, Yoshi told him he was living his life, he wasn't doing anything wrong, exactly like anybody else would say, Yoshi ended up lecturing him, I wasn't there, but I'd say it was good.

So, you cannot be single and happy (guilty), also if you are not single, you cannot but help pass on the abuse to some random Japanese guy.
No one ever tells me that i cannot be single, I'd love to hear that one, and that's something I would have to agree with.

Its my birthday every day, and whats wrong with that?

One of Yoshi's girlfriends left him, so he went to the only place in the world where he thought they would understand him, and he was laughing when he said Kosovo. Oh the misery!!!

Kosovo, a place where people lived in their basements for years, where they had a horrible war

Thursday, 8 June 2017

So, I was riding the Metro with my friend Yoshi the other day, in Ireland apparently they can build a Metro, its too sandy and really in the Germans could do it for us, that would be better, no?

I was saying the land in Kiev must be very sandy as they had to go deep.

Yoshi in a moment of brilliance said, its as deep as it is so that they can use it for a bomb shelter.

One of the subway stations, no signs, no graffiti

So, I look it up, and as it turns out, the Metro was built by the Russians, around the time of the Nuclear madness was kicking off.
Its
a typical 3 line Metro that the Russians built, each station is
designed differently, and they don't use signs at the stations, you are
supposed to know the station by the design, nice for locals, not so good
for tourists.

The system carries 1.439 million passengers daily,accounting for 38% of Kiev's public transport load. In 2013, the metro carried 536.2 million passengers.One of the deepest stations in the world, Arsenalna (at 105.5 m or 346 ft), is found on the system.

Its a long way to the top if you want to...

Now the interesting thing about these shelters and bunkers, I was in one in Germany is that there isn't much air.

I
mean, in the German bomb shelters, you needed to come out after 40
minutes or else you would die of Carbon Monoxide poisoning maybe beans
were on the menu too, I really don't know?

War bunkers don't really offer you much support, if bombs are falling, you will suffer even if you think you wont.

People kinda need air, and there's usually not much beneath the surface.

Proof Stalin truly was MAD

This command bunker is located in the very centre of Kiev. To hide it
from curious eyes it started to be built behind the secret plant
“Arsenal”.

They were building mines and plats, the earth was taken away
in covered trucks at night. When main works were over, the USSR
collapsed and the secret construction object was soon forgotten.

They do
not often remember about it today as well. Even those who come there to
replace bulbs do not know what object they visit.

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Industrial city, 25 mi NE of the mouth of the Dniester River on Odessa Bay, in Odessa oblast, in the Ukraine. The city is said to be on the site of a Miletian Greek colony settled c. 800 b.c.

Life is a...

Odessa history continued...

The Russians gained it from the Turks in 1792 and established it as a fort, naval base, and commercial port. It became important during the labor movement in the 19th century and spawned the abortive revolution of 1905, which included the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin here. It fell to Germany in 1941 after an epic defense but was liberated in 1944.

I stopped into see Odessa, it was on the way...to somewhere, I wasnt sure where that somewhere is, but I'm going there.

I switched hostel, to the nice part of town, you pay 1 euro more, the standard goes up considerable!

So, I ended up in the beach, me the Chinese |Sheen (as in Charlie Sheen) Arcadia, its where the rich people hang out, a cheap Ibiza and there is a club called Ibiza too. Impessive stuff, especially since I wasnt expecting very much at all?

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